| 10th November 2016 11:57 AM | |
| shikha | Re: BU Bhopal Ph D Entrance Exam The Syllabus for Ph.D. Entrance Exam English for admission in Barkatullah University, Bhopal is as follows: Section A History of English Literature : 14th century to Present Day Section B British Literature 1. Chaucer to Shakespeare 2. Jacobean and Neo-Classical Periods 3. Pre-Romantic & Romantic Period 4. Victorian Period 5. Twentieth Century Literature to Present All major authors and their works Section C American Literature 1. History 2. Major Writers & their works Section D Indian Writing in English 1. History 2. Major Writers & their works Section E Literary Theories and Criticism – Plato to the Present Section F 1. Linguistics - Definition of Linguistics, branches, characteristics, Language varieties, Register & style, Language variation and Sociolinguistics, Language change. Synchronic, Diachronic & historical linguistics, Minimal and non-minimal pairs. Organs of speech, speech mechanism, Classification & Description of Speech Sounds, Competence and Performance, Morphology, IC Analysis, Ambiguities. 2. Phonetics - Organs of speech, speech mechanism, Classification & Description of Speech Sounds, Consonants & Vowels. International Phonetic Alphabet, The Phoneme, The Allophones, the syllable, The Phoneme theory & Syllable Theory. International Phonetic Alphabet, The Phoneme, The Allophones, the syllable, The Phoneme theory & Syllable Theory. Transcriptions – Phonetic phonemic, Strong and weak forms, word Accent, the Word stress rules, intonation and rhythm in connected speech. Difference between R.P & G.I.E. 3. Stylistics - Nature and scope; Figures of speech; Imagery, Morphology, Linguistic Analysis, Phonology; Foregrounding, Repetition, Collocation, Collocational clash, Inversion, parallelism, coupling, embedding. Recommended Reading Crompton Ricket, History of English Literature Albert, E, History of English Literature, Fifth edition W H Long, History of English Literature E. A. Baker, History of English Fiction. G.S.Fraser: The Modern Writer and His World Hugh Walker, Essays & Essayists Nicoll, A, Theory of drama Nicoll, A, Studies in Shakespeare Kettle, A, Introduction to the English Novel Neill, D, Short history of the English Novel Butcher (tr.): Aristotle’s Poetics Scott James : The Making of Literature David Daiches: Modern Criticism and Theory : A Reader ( Long man) H. Adams and L. Searle (ed.): Critical theory since 1965 (Florida State University Press) A. H. Gilbert Literary Criticism Plato to Dryden. T. Eagleton: Literary Theory an Introduction ( Blackwell Oxford, 1983) Verma and Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction (O.U.P.1989) A.C.Gimson: An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English. R.K.Bansal and J.B.Harrison: Spoken English for India. Geoffrey Leech: A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (Longman. London 1969) David Crystal: Linguistics (Penguin) Verma and Krishnaswamy : Modern Linguistics : An Introduction (OUP 1989). A. C. Gimson : An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English. R. K. Bansal : An Outline of General Phonetics. Mittins : Attitude to English Usage, Oxford. K.R.S.Iyengar: Indian Writings in English. Meenakshi Mukherjee Twice Born Fiction. M.K.Naik(ed): History of Indian English Literature. Elton, Shakespeare. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy History of American Lietrature Goodman. Cycle of American Literature by Robert Spiller. Aspects of the Novel, E M Forster |
| 10th November 2016 10:42 AM | |
| Unregistered | BU Bhopal Ph D Entrance Exam Can you provide me the Syllabus for Ph.D. Entrance Exam English for admission in Barkatullah University, Bhopal as I need it for preparation? |
